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THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1922. | | hn P Ee IWustrated By wWill.B. Johnstone. COPYRIGHT, (922. BY GON! AND LIVERIGHT. THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY, of the whip and the blood he will swear or scold. The woman-chasing, Cynthia Nghtened with a judicial the presence of Jovers, and the shad- « (HE HONORABLE GEOFFREY BARRINGTON, son of Lord Brandan, a 10¥° Me akain so strongly that he will whiskey-swilling type, who has dis- mil ows cast by their intimacies are j w weak and silly Mke a baby. graced us in the open ports, is un- y ‘ » pure ores n ou have been through so many Ways disquieting even to the pure Captain in the Brush Army. resigns his commission when he weds wn F will look after him and nurse known here. These native imountoin don seasons, Captain Barring- Minds, But Geoffrey felt that it wa “Reggie may be coming. arette at last, and throwing the For God's sake, control yourself.’’ match aside as if it were Hope. “For Her voice was terrible now, a whole year T have been living on Geoffrey had lost the first moment prostitutes’ earnings, I am no better % ASAKO FUJINAMI, heiress, deughter ot Japanese parents who are dead, !iini: and wo will drink wine together. ecrs ure rough and uneducated sav- and there is still no guile in MO business of his dt Reggie when he might have been stern with than those awful ponces in Leicester brought up and educated in French convent schools and introduced to 4"! ae eh © ain an acomisne bey ol they patella and healthy. yout" and Yae being what they were, ‘t her. Clumsily he tried to loosen her Square, who can be flogged if they “ London socety by Ke Me ol OrKe rT joonligh © feel on easy terms with them ¢s © srhoy watked on in silence past the Would be useless hypocrisy for him to embrace, are caught, and serve them right salloping along the sands by the edgo we do with our own peasantry, In ‘ he: 18 censure ti : » vt,” , lo ante siTIR Cae FS RON ADEE’ WINE is vir pleasures. ac, don't,” he ) pushing i RADY EVLMINGIUN, & britilant matetimaker, who did. HOt foresse the result of tho sea the villaxe street of Chugenji have tmple terraces down a winding coun- ir gasped, p And all that filthy Yoshiwara, it lane Meanwhile, Asako was writing to U cee orey “Lcan't; ee? thao longs to Asako, to my sweet innocent meee Siac’ Std yy DEM, hewailing her loneliness, yone “Married!” she gcreamed. “Does jittle girl, just as Brandan belongs » to lay 8 are of ay 2 nats Morning at breakfast he announced ™arriage hurt like this? Love me, to my father; and with all this filthy ff’ I theatre hero, playing to the {hat he must be gotting back to love me, Geoffrey, You must love me, money we have been buying comforts i Toky \ 1 passed over Yue's you will! and clothes and curios and rubbish.’’ fate “The rhapsody is ended!” Reggie was pouring out whiskies A voice which nobody would have and sodas, two strong ones. Geoffrey, recognized as Reggie's put a sudden guiped down his drink, and then pro- end to Uus frantic assault, ceeded with his lamentation: He was standing in the doorway «1 understand it all now. Every- uzing at her with Seen a young English officer instruct- us she going mad? The ing the sons of boatmen and wood of the bringing together of the two. At the reception toasts are drunk to be offrey was both Brits alarm. V - ndi on his shoulder. In Chugenji there are no Japanes: Japan as appears to de their desire. Some ot the reception guests frankly | There, big captain," she cried, visitors except the. pligiime wi Question the wisdom of the marriage and doubt the possibility of a happy “don’t bw frightened, “That ia only throng to the lake during the season , “Ollrey was baffled. | Mad the lite tor the pair. Lady Evenngton, in her anxiety for the young Captain, o8¢ of Regxie’s plano tunes, | T never for climbing the holy mountain of thes rete me ord asoi ed op ae who has been her special protege, interviews heard tunes like his before. He plays Nantal. These are country peoplo, all eel ca 8 uany EY Reha Wes. 2 te wh them, and then explains to me what of them, from villages all over Japin, ‘ttible puller of legs. QOUNT SAITO, the Japanese imbassador, who tells her the Pujinamis belong ig captain,’ she expos- unt to take you right to ot the lake where the “Did you ever hear of Madge Car- bears live means; and then he plays who have drawn lucky lots in the smiling qneerly. He had watched the r 1 2 ee le?" she “ . m See G " . bod: new. The s an to the nouveaux niches of japan, but gives little intormation of their ongin again, halt ‘ Nepiee the local pilgrimage club. One can recog- 13 rity sked, ‘‘or was she before Very well.” age us jeoffrey, ‘o- two from the garden, whence Indeod faveters. ved at ny welding (ae : A That ts why T love him nize them at once by their dingy white Your time morrow morning early, then; for the gil Chuzenji could have seen them In were saying, ‘Don’ Q ot the source of their wealth. A visit to his wife's guardians, the Muratas, clothes, ike grave clother—imea ana “I have heard of her. next day I really must go." the oben Sedvacrn, He hed slicwea ce YOO saying, ‘Don't go to Japan, don't go.’ They must have all known even then. And then those damned Fujinami, 80 anxious to be civil for a Japanese tamily living .n Pars and a sojourn among the cosmopolitans Then you do lowe him? Geoffrey women are garbed dlike—oy {hcir She was a famous London cocotte He wrote to Asako « long letter his shoes and had stolen up quietly in of Deauville sharpen the aesire to see Japan. Aboard the ship they meet clutching pathetically for any- straw mushroom hats, by the strip of {7 the days when mashers wore whis- with much the lake and Yae onder to listen to them. Now he VISCOUN | KAMIMURA, returning home to wed a bride chosen by his family, {M!2# Which he could understand or straw matting strapped acr< kers and “Champagne Charlie’ was Smith, promising to return within judged it time to intervene. 3 Lier z. ! ‘ ... the beastly money's sake, and yet x uppeal to in this elusive person, shoulders, and by the tong wooden S¥nK forty-eight hours. Yao started up from the bed. For a ye whom he has never seen. A stop at Nagasaki is the first sight of real“ 1 ive him,” sid Yao, plrouetting ctaves which. they carry made “At the age of forty-three,” sald At daybreak next morning Yae was a moment she hovered on the edge, Mding everything and tying all the Japan A part of the sevelation 1s the Chonkina, or Getsha dance, seen hy on her white toes near the edge of will be stamped with the seal of the Lady Cynthia, “Madge decided to hammering at Georfrey's door. uncertain of her tactics, Geoffrey (me. And you knew, and the Am- Barrington in company with two English acquaintances. Barrington is the chasm, “and T love you and T mountain. shrine when they hove marry for the third or fourth time, “Wake up, old sleepy captain,” she stared, one hand to his forehead. Then Eece boe Mesdet Salto, and the shockec by the pertormance. He 1s disturbed to learn from the talk of 10¥e any man who is worth loving!” reached the summit. ‘These pilgrims She had found a charming young cried the girl darted across the room, fell [unin BORE Ge bee ae and Amencans and Englishnien that marriages with Japanese women are not ;; They returned to the lake in silence. are lodged free by the temple va the min with plenty of money and a no- oftrey the boat ready; and at Reggie's feet, clasped his knees, ¥ (Ja Our backs, But ous ; adey pads 8 bi Ls Geoffrey's sermon wis abortive, This jukeside, in long sheds lke eattie- ble heart, who believed that Madge Yae prepared a picnic b st to be and sobbed convulsively, Xeggie, you were my friend, you favorably regarded. xirl was altogether outside the circle pyres Was i much-slandered woman. His eaten on the way. Poor Reggie, of "MR Reggie, forgive met” sie CUENt Baad me pe " ia Rese of his code of Good Form, He might Geoffrey was sleeping upstairs in friends were sorry for the young course, had work at the Embassy; he ered. snot my fault. He's bee: a ed Sir Ralph,"’ saic je them everywhere and accumpanies them to bokyo, vhere Geollrey meets joopard “REGGIE FORSY IH, Attache of che British Embassy, musical and romantic, The wind was blowing straight shaking off old attachments in Paris for a new one in Japan, the novelty being YALE SMITH, daughter ot a Japanese mother ang an English father. Bar- mngton meets Miss smith who smokes and languishes in Forsyth’s apart- ments at the Embassy. Barrington, trom a talk with j LADY CYNTHIA CAIRNS, wite of the British Ambassador, learns of Yae's } many—some fatal—love affairs and of the Embassy's disaproval of For- syths engagement to ihe voung won.en. & ITO, lawyer tor the Fuyinami estate, who has made regular remittances to Mrs. Barnngton, arranges for her and + husband to meet the Fu- jinamis of Tokyo he entertainments fail «. mpress Barrington, to whom Japanese family customs seem odd and contradictory. A family business conferegce discloses the fact that the Fujinami income is derived from : the Geisha house privileges in Tokyo and elsewhere, At the same conference Asako's marriage to Sarrington is discussed, the decision being that she should be married to a japanese, the matter of divorce being easy. Under the tutelage of her -ousin, ASAKO, Barrington’s bride, begins to learn something of Japanese family cus- toms and hear about her‘father and mother, the one a poet, the other a delicate, clinging little wornan ‘vho died when Asako was born. Barrington . and Yae Smith are rorsyth’s guests at Kamakura. They leave a dance to watch the Japanese peasants on the beach, Yae flirts with Geoffrey, who carries her back to Forsyth’s house in his arms. They have been seen by Tanaka. Asako learns from her cousin that childlessness is cause for divorce in Japan, She spends much time in the Fujinami household. CHAPTER XVIII. (Continued.) boat shot down the length of the lake Among the Nikko Mountains. at a delicious speed. The two voy- OXT morning *t# reached at Iast a little harbor, i Shobu-ga-Hama—The Beach of the Geoffrey was Lilies—a muddy shore with slimy awakened by the rocks, a few brown cottages and a sawmill boom of a tem- “"ret's go and ace the waterfall," ple bell. He suggested Yae, “it's only a few min- stepped out on utes."* to his balcony ‘They walked together up a steep and saw tt winding lane, The fresh air and the '® birch trees, the sight of real Alderney lake and the cows grazing on patches of real grass, hills around the distant rumble of the cataract * brought back to Geoffrey a feeling of Clear and bright strength and well-being to which he under the yel- nad for weeks been n stranger. low sunshine. If only the real Asako had been Hoe drank in the With him Instead of this enigmatic and ce disquieting image of her! Get th ot the dew. For the “rhe Japanese, who have an innate time after many limp and jove for natural beauty, never fail to airs on the sofa, He had expected a dinner to celebri to return to the hotel after junch, tm th ct 1 told. He is a very wise man, He ever since Kamakura—and all the ‘No,’ . % One eee ee At he camnerte sald, ‘No.’ He said, ‘It would be cruel Stee hone ton Neagle forsive me 7 and it would be useless. They will go Wil never be nawehty age ™° F pack to England soon and then they Reggie looked acrogs at his friend js}, never Know.’ Where Ignorant for confirmation or denial. The queer | 71° YOU understand?” smile had vanished. Good Form de- . Fer aaa cea ee creed that the man must lie for the id te Bie Raton thak ae woman's sake, {f necessary till his Mitac wed ceovecouse Bae “But what am T to do now?" sale thrown to the winds, like International «¢ pig mun helmlessle. e"Thie tacnee Law in war time, Be : ; must be given up and everythings was no better than a we have. But whom to? Not to th Reggie's friendship was filthy Fujinami? “No," he said huskily; “that is not ‘ “Go slow,"? advised Reggie, "Go true, I was quietly sleeping here and jack to England first, Get your brain she came up to me, She is man- Y clear. Talk it over with your lawyer mad A Don't be too generous. Magnanimity tangled heap at Reggie's feet } spoiled many noble lives. And up, her green eyes blazing. remember that your wife is in thisg i" she cried. “Reggie, do you too, You must consider her first. Sh! him? The hypocrite, the js yery young and she knows nothir ody, the white slave man, [ don't think that she wants to be Spiro 317 poor, or that she will understand your “What does she mean? sald motives.”” ffrey. Thank God, the woman +] will make hicr understand then,” s clearly mad, aid Geoffre Fujinami! Fujinami!" she yelled. “Don’t tulk like a brute. You will ‘The great girl king! The Yoshiwara have to be very patient and consi- myo! Every scrap of money crate for her. Go slow! vhich his fool wife spends on sham “Can I stop here to-night, then urlos was made in the Yoshiwara, asked Barrington, plaintively made by women, made out of filth, said Reggie with firmness made by prostitutes!"” as is really more than I could The last word brought Geoffrey to stick. I told you—truth or untruth, his feet. In his real agony he had the mind keeps on seeing pictures. quite forgotten his sham sin. Pack up your things. Call a coolt “Reggie. for God's sake, tell me, is The evening walk down to Nikko will this true do you more good than my jawins. "Yes," sail Reggie quietly, ‘It is Goodby." iuite true An unreal handshake—and he was “Then why did no one tell me?" — gone. “Husbands,"" said the young man, _ Then, of a sudden, Geoffrey reai- ind prospective husbands are ized that, how very unwittingly, he, ways the last to learn. Yae, go back had deeply wronged this man who wa to the hotel, You have done enough Dis best friend and upon whom he was lingan forstaudn ane leaning in his liour of trial. Like Job, “Not unless you forgive me, Reg- b!8 adversities were coming upon him ‘ aa an Bin ah ni {yom this and from that, until he “YAE FELL AT REGGIE'S FEET, sie,” the girl pleade Twill never must curse God and die. Now CLASPED HIS KNEES AND &® Unless you forgive.’ friend had given him his dismisso SOBBED CONVULSIVELY. ‘REG- “! can't forgive, He would probably never see Reggie GIE, FORGIVE ME!' SHE CRIED, “yr, DTODADIY forge cam, Porsytht again, "47'S NOT MY FAULT." he wrath of these two men fas- As he was starting on his long einated her. She would have waited walk downhill a motor car passed Lim. she could, listening at the door. Only one motor car that season had © the betrothal It was an ideal excursion, ‘The middle of the feast an urgent reached S the woodeutter’s vil. and he said, ‘but I Reggie knew this. climbed the precipitous road from the @amp awakenings he felt the thrill of mark an exceptional view with a little ge the end of the la They “If you don't clear out, Yae, I will plains. It must be Yae Smith's, Just the wings of the morning. He thank- bench or shelter for travellers, whence cended the forest path as fur as the have to call To to take you he as it was passing the girl leaned out 2 they can obtain the best perspective. @4 God he had come. If only Asako “ Gooffrey and Yao were balancing ‘were here! he thought. Perhaps she themselves on the bench, gazing at against the harbor. The bay of but her attitude was that of ‘J'y suis, message arrived for the enamored upper lake, a mere pond of reeds and threatened. of the ¢ sedges, which the bears are supposed Geoffrey. to haunt, he Was not alone. There was a lage and blew a kiss to To his great relief she went quietly. was right in getting a Japanese home the race of foam and wt the byrnished Shobu-ga-Hama was shallow water. J'y reste."’ one, summoning him to his home. “Geoffrey and Yae, however, saw Reggie relumes to the bare bed- small fat man in the car beside her, fust for the two of them, ‘They Drucken. ‘The Englishman was clear- Try as he might, Geoffrey could not He awoke with a start to find the When he had gone the others started pothing more alarming than the vil. T0n™ where Gi trey with bowed 4 Japanese with a round impertinent s . *Y tng his mind for action, manoeuvre the little yacht into the girl standing beside his bed. After- plying poor Madge with drinks, She qage curs head was staring at the floor. In sce With a throb of bitter heart- would be happier there than jostled «figs Smith,"’ he began at last, open waters of the lake. wards he became sure that he had was very fond of drinks. They had —“treturned in safety from the land Eeesie's short kimono the big Man sickness Geoffrey recognized his own by the promiscuity of hotels. +40 you think you will be happy with “We are on a lee shore,” suid been awakened by the touch of soft splendid fun. ‘Then one of the guests SeuEnee 1b. te “rhe na she Woked decidedly ridiculous. srvant, Tanak At breakfast Reggie had found a peggie?" Geoffrey, fingers on his face. —he wan an old lover of Madge's— of canst crise on ane aa Mie "Good," thought Reggie. ‘Thank “Next” morming Reggie Forsyth mote from the Ambassador. “He says so, big captain," an- At the end he had to get down and “Wake up, bis captain," she was guggested—Goodby to the old days Siyan® shore at the steps * God for the comic spirit. It will be crossed the lake us usual to his work “Oh, dam: "he cried, “I must 8°) swered the little half-caste, her wado barelegged, towing the boat saying. “‘It is four o'clock, and the and the rest of it! ‘Lhe air and exercise had weariea “Ser to get through with this now."’ at the Embassy. He met the Ambas- ever and beat a typewriter for two mouth queerly twisted. after him, until at last Yae an- Ark's coming. “But what did ho think of his gGeoftrey, ‘After luneh he changed , 11! first action was to wash his «adress on the terrace of her villa, or three hours. I must therefore jecauso if you are not happy, nounced that the centreboard had ‘'What Ark?'’ he yawned, ° friends?" asked Geoffrey. “It seem8 into a kimono of Reggic Then te hands. He had an unconsclous in- “Good morning, Lady Cynthia," he break my tryst. But I expegt you to Reggie won't be happy; and if you been lowered and that the boat was “Why, the Embassy boat a low-down sort of trick.’* lay down on his bed and was soon “thet for symbolism, Then he sat said, “I congratulate you on your replace me like the immortal Cyr- are neither of you happy you will be answering to the helm, Out of sheer devilry, Miss Smith ‘He was very sore about it at the ;. : 8 down opposite his friend. musterly diplomacy. fast asleep @no, who should be the ideal of all gorry that you married.” Geoffrey clambered in dripping. Ho waited for the arrival of Lady Cyn- time," said Lady Cynthia iow Icke a. alent @oldiers. Will you take Yae for an «j3ut we are not married yet,’ said shook himself lke a big dog after a thia, The great lady paid no more at- ward he understood that they were The action of sitting reduces tragedy = What do you mean?” could to comedy at once—this was one of jjery manner nowa * 7 say, but he i) slowly out of con- ayS was very, hour or two's sail? She likes you tho girl, “we are only engaged: swim, tontion to her existence than if sho heroes, real theatre heroes."* Fe arte hoeietalacwar tania NEBSIeOR's miasima, chilly toward her former favorite. very much. “But you will be married some = “Regei la q have done had been a piece of the house. But ‘“‘It looks like rain,’ said Geoffrey, ,, # ' Then he opened his cigarette case “in accordance with your admi- “And if I drown your flancee? I ? SEO: COUNG BAVOr Dave, 20) : room, Somebody was near his bed. ¥ y _ your Hancee 7g. time, I suppose?” that.” said Yao, with fervent admi- She greeted Geoffrey most cordially. uneasily. Was it Ascko? Waa it a dream? “nd offered It to Geoffrey. This, too, rable arrangements,” he said, ‘my Gon't know anything about sailing.” wriiy year, next year, sometime, ration. "Ho would be afraid of catch- ‘Come for a walk,"* she sald In her So they turned back, talking about “No, jt was hie someade, of the Was symbole. Geoffrey took @ clg- marriage is off TH show you. It's very casy. Be- overs juughed Yae. ‘It is nico to ing cold.” abrupt w: London people. marntne'é voy Tt Was Te eslae OFette Mechanically, and sucked tt be- "Oh, Regs er coolness changed sides, Yao really knows more about 1, nan e cd the steps of AS they turned down the village The first drops fell as they were ghe Was BiLtitip oe the bee “em his lips, unlighted at once, “I'm so glad’ ft than I do.” engaged, and \t is such a prot At last they reached the step she ing into his faco 5 ; “s ‘eet she announced: ing through the wicket gate, and She was tion, When T am not engaged all the the villa, They were both hungry, theet passing 5 rate, him, She Oe ea At Bo Seat tplagdle partisan 2 old cats, Lady Cynthia and the rest, ‘I am going to stop to lunch, big ‘The worst has happened—I sup- they entered the house during a rokr with her soft, stilt, ¢ atlike alot oa tion of ‘the pian aed y piloted jis ®@¥ that I flirt. Now, when I am en- captain," said Yae. “Reggie won't be pose you know of thunder. Reggie w: one. was sho doing that for? quietly, women of our b aid his friend very He held up a warning hand, teew to put these ‘“But—you have broken a better We Wilt--sness out man than I." re 5 i ch was x ; nig About Regge “{ see that my fate is sealed,” Je stroking his arm, Her touc this over decently “Why, what do you mean?’ aint ov i *. the Kaged, my flance is here to shield me. back gee i ) ” Pe stroking mak over decently.” ned by the 1caWhys do y ? rue OT eauict at tie canna Then they dare not say things or tt “How do you know?" Sper He A Setnally Shaaged ith (8 “anid, ae He. fase 10 meet thom THe port, He did not ROP Wee iow _Cieottrey wae te ad Just learned where hibs.Darrington, He has ' Embassy an the opposite shore of the comes around to him and he ls angry. «Because I saw Gwendolen Cairna Marncd t© the creuture, Has he told heavens themselves blaze forth thie Her hair was let domm more silky SOCK Of Wie ieht of nothing cise. “You told hims'inami are and i Jwendole ances! "* ong black hair, more SKY thot pe hac ought of noth ei) lake. He then made his way rond 80 I can do anything T like when I jistening last evening when he spoke > vin the greatest confidence."* Meath Af MERSORY Tier waists TON 8 Pee avavy tian that soe, he nat a sudden he remembered “I'm not such a skunk French Cape past Russia Cove to the “™ ensaged.”’ to me through the big trumpet. Sho Well, he forgot to bind in teases DS See explanations to* Lady Cynthia. woman, Her Kl- that he owed serious forgot to bind his young . CHAPTER XIX of a pure Japanes ellency was pondering what wooden landing stage of the Lakesida This was a new morality for Geof- tells Lady Cynthia, and that means @ jady to secrecy. Her E Sho has tole ry- . de open at the throat. A nis friend. “ays 7 alee for <a ey. Hotel. There he found Yae sitting on {e¥. It knocked the text from under jor o¢ work next day for poor Regeles joc Hep soldievary mice Lait pues orem paled from the Spoggicy" he anid dutty, “i'm moat iat better be d inte Senet @ bench and throwing powdies at the the sermon which he had been pre- yo that he can't spend his time With “scant he bo recalled to London? SE aka een awfully sorry. T had Severn et : lectins ithe night at Nikko. H oo. BOTS: BNO wae OS FIN ROCATON AS ic, You ee! Oh, How E BAW sone Gis man sayy thar world: raga ko nari, ee vig captain, may 12" she pleaded. of this, I was good pals Be Pee the itt or Tokio She wore the blue and white eot- Regete; but she was not, like him,’ omen? Th ole man says that would just Waga ko nari : “Big capta’ id Goeffrey, still balf jcequse of you. I never dreamed f is probably in the train for fon sono which is the summer Consclous of her preposterousness. \ n the push him over the edge. Te has The thief— What?” sai ‘thine jove to her. You know how jow E gress of Japanese women ; Then, when you are married will After lunch, at Chuzenjl, al © talked of resigning from the service."" When | caught him and looked gat asleep. rongee y my wife, Sho must have been “jp a hero, a real theatr of ta) @ > world goes to sleep. It awakes at “15 4) hin tor A pies “Just lie by your side—just © 1 love my RG) CBA ffrey had been wppar- gheap garment, but most elfective— You flirt?" asked her companion, Beatin TALcnie. GeWGn the. WhItA here anything to! be don Hs eit * at Ve mme,? she cooed. mad to think of mo like th hero, as Geoffrey ha Rad 80 clean and cool in the hot weatier, “I think #0," said Yae gravely. ee pieced ba dete thin t him marry her, It Le! my ewn chil Just for the last <n the to. sleep sides,” ho added sheepishly, “nothing ently, she would go straight ¢ sails come gliding out ol he 4 : bid Geoffrey was for rin, well ple M will spoil his career in diplomacy, of ly happened ‘Tokio also; and perhaps she would A nh arm ac "yn sure T don't care what act gh to prevent a catastrophe. OF ! J ie i : Vl lL os Wiles at ns she would not. Pe SRL ra eit ‘shoulder in her ally happen lid t APP. Ferhap 1d not, Perhaps # Joser to him Damn actual facts, They «stort the You only make things worse, On Blk kimonos soon become st louok- ‘Besides, Reggie only wants to dress “ss WEEK hard wogic ‘ fog; Ddut this cotton dress uiways me up and write music about me. It ke ; 1 (pr course. But he will soon get tired of A gan for Reggie. The Ambas/- gems to be fresh from the laundry. | am always the same like an English avoid, They run side by side for the her fool him, He will divoree her, sador was reporting home {on 7 e > , . They co- an¢ © ite : ne o- chest, and caught bh ‘A rope of imitation pearls was on. Goll wife he won't get many tunes to length of a puff of breeze, They ¢o- and will give up his life to music to every imaginable subject from p ch st ene 6 ages with his dre ays like swans. They greet, twinea in her dark hair; aad her P' Reggte is like a girl.” quet with one another like butterflies; which, of course, he belongs O- litical assassination to the manufwtic- hand. She nese td wt jove truth. ‘They are at the n of (0'Wwhole, sho had better stop In | Broad sash of deep bluc was serurei “Reggie is too good for you," said oF they head for one of those hidden ple like Reggie Forsyth have no right ture of celluloid. This was par .t uf — “Geoflrey.”” Be Mn ong and every injustice. What is y hAP- Ghuzenji and look after her own hus- = fm front with an old Chinese ornament the Englishman, roughly. beaches which are the principal charnt to marry at all."* Lady Cynthia's scheme, She wam? de- you so much. Tou t's, stay lke pened never matters, Iti lie Die pang C - of jade, “1 don’t think #0,” said Yae. “1 of the lake, where baskets are Un- = "But are you sure that she wants termined to throw Yae Smith g¢and so bigy Geoffrey. “holding on to ture which sticks in one's sain True Tteggle," she sald, “you've had a ; “Ob, big captain,” she cried, “Iam don't want Reggie, but Reggie wants Packed and cakes and sandwiches ap- to marry hi said his friend; and Geoffrey Barrington together all}, the this always, always, NCTE “Love or false, it sticks just the sane: aNd jcxy egcape, How did you know Sikes pied it ia you. 1 heard you wero me.” pear, where dry sticks are guthered he related his conversation with Yae time, and to risk the consequenvowes, you till T make you Ue way cuagenty or slowly it alters @ that I had any hand in this? You're oominy.” “What do you want then for a rustle fire and after an hour or that morning Ho Yae, though she had ber m vom me just a little, Geaftrey, it must thing. But T can wipe up my OWN Jove of a girl than a man, A rotten \'s very interesting and en- at the hotel, became an inmate of will ever know. a broken you. suid Her Excellency. Reggie's villa She took all hear be nice to hay mem a has been trying her hand on meals there, and her slesta durin fs trey, you Must > 4 alveady,"* most ot the afternoons She eve “in love me Bhe stepped into the boat and took "I want a great big man with arms more of anxious stoking the kettle ever the tiller and the command. and legs like a wrestler, A man who boils Geoffrey explained his friend's ab- hunts hons, He will pick me up like ‘Of all the Japanese holiday pl sence. you did at Kamakura, big captain, Chuenji is the ect and ; ich more seri- é a cave vou, Geof- mess, I think, It is mu Berle ere ee Sould Ii \ v your ant to ous with you than with me, Geof Cire, lene ti nas Hed trey. She has Wvulsed my heel but Cente te He is ton a tae ne has brokea your head. No, don't 1 nut ne will learn a lot which to his neck now, * “The bad boy,” she said, “he wants and throw me in the air and cate most eouble, » Forsyth ex "Ene thought of thi exX- passed whole nights with Reggie; an ad She wis eli pine nad. He felt protest, for Heay ket Tam not TM now already; and he will sure te get away from me in order to think me again, And I will take him away plained; “it is tho only place in ll claimed Geoffrey. “Why, she knows their relations could no longer be 11 wild-eyed |ke a Me) of Jo- interested.’* tely vive." @bout a lot of music. But 1 don’t from the woman he loves, so that he Japan where the foreigner is g0"1- that Reggie is my hest friend; and gecret even to Geoffrey's laboriou,, 3 pitifully ridieulou 4 humiliating. Then wh ne says is absolu aly (Continued To-Morrow) care!" will hate me and beat me for it. And inely popular und that Lam married. stion, Wi. seph is so thankless and Wun ie uct sald lighting his cig- ‘There was plenty of breeze, The when he sees on my tack the marks spends his money f a Judicial features of Lady ‘This knowledge troubled him; foy fF “Don't be so RAUBDIY: h P t ; { ?